These ludicrous lies about the West and Islam

The Observer ^ | 13 August 2006

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The first Islamist terrorist plot against New York's World Trade Centre was carried out on 26 February 1993 with a car bomb under one of the twin towers. It killed six people but failed in its aim of bringing the whole building down. To achieve that, another plot was hatched.

Meanwhile, British and American foreign policy was focused not on the Islamic world, but on the unstable transition of former communist countries to democracy.

Twice during the Nineties, Nato launched military interventions in the Balkans, both aimed at protecting Muslim populations in Bosnia and Kosovo. What Middle East policy there was focused on diplomatic efforts, led by President Clinton, to negotiate lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians. This was hardly a Western war against Islam.

Britain and America spent much of the Nineties trying to prevent conflicts or to resolve them. At worst, as shamefully in Rwanda, they simply ignored them. They were transparently not running a conspiracy to trample the Muslim faithful underfoot. The people who depicted it that way were a tiny minority telling lies to justify murder.

But things have changed. The argument that terrorism is, in fact, a response to Western actions overseas has gained currency. It was voiced most recently on Saturday in an open letter by a number of influential British Muslim leaders to Tony Blair. The Prime Minister's policy in the Middle East, they said, puts British lives at risk.

The implication is that the young Britons who last week were accused of plotting to blow up passenger planes in mid-air would have been less susceptible to al-Qaeda recruitment had Britain not fought wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Policy should be changed, they said, to avoid giving ideological 'ammunition to extremists'.

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I am completely and utterly disgusted by Islamic genocide in the Sudan, Nigeria, and W. Irian. I guess my grievance against Muslims could account for my rage if I decided to burn down a mosque somewhere? It wouldn't, of course. However, you cannot bring this up to the MSM because they hold Muslims to a very low standard of behavior. You cannot hoist Muslims on the same petard because the Quran teaches them that they have a divine right to commit evil against non-Muslims and that any act committed against Muslims (no matter how justified) is by their own definition an injustice that will cause them to circle the wagons even around the most despicable members of their deadly cult. So any talk of theirs about a foreign policy being the cause of terror is just more dissembling Islamic skulduggery.